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5I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
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The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)The psalmist here tells us, for our instruction, 1. How he was disowned and deserted by his friends, Ps. 142:4. When he was in favour at court he seemed to have a great interest, but when he was made an out-law, and it was dangerous for any one to harbour him (witness Ahimelech’s fate), then no man would know him , but every body was shy of him. He looked on his right hand for an advocate (Ps. 109…
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